Word: descent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When copies of Soviet Government newspapers were received, they bristled with propaganda tending to prepare the public for the descent of the sword upon Trotsky and his followers who were described as "political cockroaches" . . . must . . . be sent away out of the proletarian family...
...material of the course is officially listed as "Human Evolution", and covers the descent of man and his distribution over the earth's surface. There is no doubt that Professor Hooton is a very eminent anthropologist, but when taking the course one cannot help having the feeling that he is not particularly interested in the work in question. With this attitude in evidence on the professorial side, a show of wild enthusiasm on the part of the members of the course is hardly to be expected. In short, it is a half course covering what could be a distinctly interesting...
...Columbia, President Nicholas Murray Butler accepted the Casa Italiana, $315,000 hall donated by U. S. men of Italian descent as an expression of goodwill...
Reported Married. Mme. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb., 1912). "Father of the Chinese Revolution," founder of the Cantonese Government (1917); to Eugene Chen, onetime (1926-27) Foreign Minister of the Canton Nationalist Government. His first wife was of Negro descent...
...other was a 196-pounder of Lithuanian descent, Jack Sharkey,* aged 25. Heavily good-looking, bright-eyed, garrulous, he was to prove himself formidable enough to deserve a chance at overpowering the man that whipped Dempsey last autumn, World's Champion Gene Tunney...